Bar Raised.

A Look At How Much The Top Bars In Dallas Earned In December 2016.

Texans like to spend copious amounts of their income participating in the Great American Pastime. We know this, because as Reddit user BadLemur once pointed out, the Texas Comptroller keeps tabs on that sort of thing and makes all that info public record. Any establishment in the state that holds a Mixed Beverage license must report all sales revenue generated from the sale of liquor, beer and wine at their establishments on a monthly basis. The comptroller, in turn, puts all that info into a conveniently downloadable spreadsheet each month. As of June, there were 1,178 establishments in Dallas proper that held such a license. Below we’ve gone ahead and done you the solid of listing out the top 20 Dallas establishments in terms of alcohol sales for the month of December 2016.

There’s been much talk in recent months about the number of Dallas restaurants shutting their doors for good. So many! And in such a short time, too!

But we get it, nostalgia for your favorite bars from drunken days past is strong. But there memories live on – because they are inside of you. In some cases, like in the clip below, they get turned into short docs. The thing below was shot on the last day Club Schmitz was open, and before its grill earned a new life, moving on to another new Deep Ellum spot.

Cory Graves is the Associate Editor at Central Track. He enjoys not only writing about Dallas and its local music scene, but being a part of it as a member of the band Vandoliers. Courtney Love once referred to him onstage as “my fucking therapist,” which he immediately put on his resume.